The large gun shows by Freeman?

[TexYid]

I was gone for a while, just curious what happened to the large gun shows by Freeman? (on the Rodeo grounds)

 

[Southpaw]

Funny you ask about this now. I just read this...
MMM can probably fill you in more in any other particulars.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff also announced that Freeman Coliseum would no longer host gun shows. Wolff said the last gun show at the county facility was in 2016 and said there are no plans to host a gun show in the future.

"At gun shows, anybody can buy a gun from a stranger and sell it to a stranger," Wolff said.

https://www.ksat.com/news/bexar-cou...-including-gun-collection-program#/questions/

 

[TX OMFS]

Nelson Wolf is an embarrassment.

 

[SA_Steve]

As is his son.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Who, gladly, is getting out of the game.

 

[pronstar]

Why on earth is a judge the mouthpiece for a county?
He sounds more like a politician.

And IMHO you’d have to be a special kind of window-licker to voluntarily hand over guns to the .gov “for storage”.


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[toddnjoyce]

Why on earth is a judge the mouthpiece for a county?
He sounds more like a politician.

And IMHO you’d have to be a special kind of window-licker to voluntarily hand over guns to the .gov “for storage”.


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Because he is a politician.

County Judge. Not legal judge.

 

[majormadmax]

Bexar County was making it tough for Premier to use the venue, to the point where it simply wasn't economically feasible to continue. Sadly, vendors kept pulling out as well, to the point that the show was about half as large as it was at its peak.

Since you've been gone, gun shows have been on the decline in San Antonio for the past few years. Even Austin Highway is closing, and Texas Gun Shows disappeared a while back. SAXET continues to chug on, but to be honest, we quit going a few years back.

 

[HKShooter65]

Why on earth is a judge the mouthpiece for a county?
He sounds more like a politician.

Well, he has been ELECTED several times.

Of course he is a politician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Wolff

Here is a topic for an interesting thread:
Why are judges in our state elected?
More germane to my real question...why do they declare themselves to belong to a specific political party?

IMO they should be apolitical.

 

[Southpaw]

Well, he has been ELECTED several times.

Of course he is a politician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Wolff

Here is a topic for an interesting thread:
Why are judges in our state elected?
More germane to my real question...why do they declare themselves to belong to a specific political party?

IMO they should be apolitical.

I don't know either way, but that topic sure had NPR a buzz a few weeks ago.
Do judges being so somehow hurt the Dems more then the Reps? For them to talk about it on a few different shows over the course of a week sure seemed that way. They generally don't go on and on about something unless it something that they think is unfair to them.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Well, he has been ELECTED several times.

Of course he is a politician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Wolff

Here is a topic for an interesting thread:
Why are judges in our state elected?

- https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/texas-1866/article-4-judicial-department

More germane to my real question...why do they declare themselves to belong to a specific political party?

IMO they should be apolitical.

Party affiliation does not imply partisan legal rulings; but if it does, people want to know which way the wind is blowing.

Here’s some good background the partisan election of judges

https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_election_of_judges

 

[SA_Steve]

Actually, in some TX counties, they are 'legal' judges.
I had to deal with one, complicated legal matter. He ran on the platform of fixing the county roads. My lawyer got my issue kicked to a real judge. Just another way to charge hours.

 

[TexYid]

Bexar County was making it tough for Premier to use the venue, to the point where it simply wasn't economically feasible to continue. Sadly, vendors kept pulling out as well, to the point that the show was about half as large as it was at its peak.

Since you've been gone, gun shows have been on the decline in San Antonio for the past few years. Even Austin Highway is closing, and Texas Gun Shows disappeared a while back. SAXET continues to chug on, but to be honest, we quit going a few years back.

Thank You.

I have been to Saxet since I have been back. It seems about the same as before I left. I miss the old Saxet shows at the long gone event center on Broadway and 410.

 

[HKShooter65]

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Party affiliation does not imply partisan legal rulings; but if it does, people want to know which way the wind is blowing.

Seems that most people do not realized that Greg Abbott, a couple years ago, signed a bill eliminating straight ticket voting in our state starting in 2020.

This will affect a down-ballot voting, as so many voters will no longer have the one-click options and lord knows wether they have neither sufficient attention span nor inclination to slog through all the way down to county and municipal races.

I've never voted straight ticket for the reasons you site. County and local races such as judges really, in theory, ought be apolitical!